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Easy Rider 40th Anniversary

by Adele Melander-Dayton

[23.Nov.09] :. This 40-year-old classic still has its thrills -- enough to make you wish that you, too, had a bike with a teardrop gas tank emblazoned with the American flag.

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Playing a character out of rehab hits home for Dennis Hopper

by Luaine Lee [McClatchy-Tribune News Service (MCT)]

[31.Aug.09] :. PASADENA, Calif. — For Dennis Hopper it’s deja vu all over again. The actor, who has become a legend in his own time for films like “Easy Rider,” “Apocalypse Now”...

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Elegy

by Matt Mazur

[26.Mar.09] :. Coixet’s examination of age and the natural process of dying are refracted through a spectrum of cultures, ages, experiences and fears that are atypical of contemporary American films.

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An American Carol

by David Hearne

[15.Jan.09] :. This is what right-wingers accuse Hollywood liberals of making: a vanity project intended to please a small, select group.

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Hell Ride (2008)

by Bill Gibron

[25.Oct.08] :. Can a DVD alter your perception on a film? Perhaps the bigger question is, should it? When you walk out of a theater, disappointed or elated, should the home theater experience three to several...

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Crash: Series Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Oct.08] :. Despite his recent meandering through Ameriprise commercials on the beach, Dennis Hopper can still pull out an audacious Frank Booth-like performance when so moved.

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Dennis Hopper says ‘Crash’ character is his craziest yet

by Rick Bentley [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[16.Oct.08] :. Dennis Hopper’s oxygen-sniffing character of Frank Booth in the 1986 film “Blue Velvet” was a Hall of Fame kind of crazy. The 72-year-old actor also has played characters you would...

Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008

by Bill Gibron

[10.Sep.08] :. What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience.

Grindhouse Wannabe More ‘Hell’ than ‘Ride’

by Bill Gibron

[8.Aug.08] :. There is is a big difference between legitimate cool and faked cool. The real thing is hard to define and rather ephemeral. It exudes off the subject - film, album, individual - in ways that...

Swing Vote

by Cynthia Fuchs

[1.Aug.08] :. Swing Vote's satire is consistently unsurprising, even if it's warranted.

Independent Lens: The Cool School

by Cynthia Fuchs

[10.Jun.08] :. Exploring the LA art scene of the 1950s and '60s, The Cool School appreciates the love of surface -- the self-performance and artifice, the illusory forward motion and devotion to consumption -- that defines the city.

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: August 2008

by Bill Gibron

[1.May.08] :. Talk about a crowded schedule. There are more offerings scheduled this month than in the previous two combined.

Digital Dynamite: The 30 Best DVDs of 2007

by PopMatters Staff

[25.Jan.08] :. It was the year of the behemoth box set, the multi-disc triumph that tried to give long suffering fans everything their demanding little digital hearts ever desired. Here are PopMatters' 30 picks for the best DVDs of the year.

Memory (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[30.Mar.07] :. Like a high school essay written the night before it's due, Memory reveals its dearth of imagination right off, with a frontispiece dictionary definition of its title.

E-Ring

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Jan.06] :. Hopper plays McNulty with all kinds of pro-military gusto, though he's perpetually pissed off at the administration, because civilians tend to miss points and tactics.

E-Ring

by Cynthia Fuchs

[21.Sep.05] :. No one else could make this dialogue sound like poetry quite like Dennis Hopper, so misfitted for his role as a Pentagon Colonel that he seems perversely perfect.

Land of the Dead (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[24.Jun.05] :. Predictably macabre, darkly comic, and grimly class conscious, Land of the Dead imagines a world where humans turn against each other when facing dreadful fates.

Inside Deep Throat (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[11.Feb.05] :. Inside Deep Throat is less interested in the film's making than in its cultural and political fallouts.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex ‘N’ Drugs ‘N’ Rock ‘N’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood: Denni

by Michael Christopher

[23.Aug.04] :. While Scorsese, Spielberg, and Coppola have become legends, they have also become what they once rebelled against: the system.

Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)

by John G. Nettles

[12.May.03] :. It is, quite simply, the Hollywood Western in full flower, with all the nostalgia and sins of commission and omission that that implies.

Jesus’ Son (2000)

by Cynthia Fuchs

The elegance of Maclean's film, however, lies i

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

by Cynthia Fuchs

'Apocalypse Now' -- 'Redux' or regular -- is well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions. In both versions, it's that rare movie that looks hard at the culture that produced it.

Apocalypse Now Redux (2001)

by Tobias Peterson

'Apocalypse Now Redux', ultimately, allows us to celebrate a film that has become indelibly ingrained into American popular consciousness while, at the same time, forcing us to question the violence and inhumanity that characterize the troubling past of this same culture.